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03 Aug 2015 9:13:35am

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David,

@ "Everything you have written here can be turned around to that it is you who are seeking to impose your views on those who wish to uphold the law of marriage as it is."

No, it really can't.

Why don't you explain to us all how making something legal, when that something cannot possibly affect you - remembering that you have admitted that such is the case - involves beliefs being forced on you?

@ "But then not being married you don’t have a stake in marriage, so it’s a bit of a game."

My marital status has nothing to do with being able to understand marriage. But I do have a stake in choices people should be allowed to make - and the choice of being able to marry the person one loves - if you so wish - is a personal decision. If two adult humans want to get married - regardless of their gender, religion, hair colour or whatever - then who are you and I to tell them that they cannot?